Enjoy this audio recording of “A Wendy House” by Molly Spencer from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Molly Spencer’s poetry has bee published or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, FIELD, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review online, New England Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Rumpus. She holds an
Enjoy this audio recording of “After Reading a Letter from the Addict” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor from Vol. 27:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor’s honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency Award (Guanajuato, MX); 2015
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Penelope Metaphor” by Kyla Marshell from Vol 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kyla Marshell is a creative writer whose poems, essays, articles and interviews have appeared in Bookforum, BuzzFeed, Ebony.com, ESPNw, Gawker, The Guardian, Hannah Magazine, Kinfolk Magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, PEN America, the Poetry Foundation, REVIVE Music, and elsewhere.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Collision” by Jenna Rindo from Vol. 27:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jenna Rindo’s work has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Crab Creek Review, and Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. She lives in rural Wisconsin with her family, and small flocks of Shetland
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Farm Floats, It Disappears” by Joni Lee from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Joni Lee’s poems have been published in PMS: Poemmemoirstory, Juked, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and fellow poet,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Each Day I Open the Door to Damage” by Emily Pérez from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Emily Pérez is the author of Backyard Migration Route and a recipient of grants and scholarships from the Artist Trust, Jack Straw Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Summer Literary Seminars, and
Enjoy this audio recording of “entirely lit up from within by Natalie Bryant Rizzieri” from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Natalie Bryant Rizzieri’s poems have been published in journals such as Salamander Review, Crab Orchard Review, Oklahoma Review, Sugar House Review, Connotation Press, Redactions, Ascent, Permafrost, and Spec – Journal of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Cosmovore Finds Pluto Less Palatable Than Imagined” by Kristi Carter from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kristi Carter’s poems have appeared in publications including Alyss, Gertrude, So to Speak, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), Nimrod, Naugatuck River Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here:
Enjoy this audio recording of “Quantum Theory” by Victoria Kelly from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Victoria Kelly was born in New Jersey and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. A U.S. Mitchell Scholar, she received her M.Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College in
Enjoy this audio recording of “Resentment of the Dead Toward The Living” by Ann Gearen from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ann Gearen is from Oak Park, IL, and worked for twenty-five years as a psychotherapist at a shelter for battered women. Her work is published in Primavera, Mobius, After Hours, and River
Enjoy this audio recording of “October Lines” by Liz Minette from Vol 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Liz Minette lives in Esko, MN, near Lake Superior. She’s been writing for about ten years. Publication credits include Abbey, Earth’s Daughters, Nerve Cowboy, and Many Mountains Moving, among others. She is part of a local writing
Enjoy this audio recording of “Kings of Metal” by Erin Swan from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Erin Swan is a writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work has been published in various journals, including Asia Literary Review, Bodega Magazine, and The Portland Review. She holds an MA in English Education from
Enjoy this audio recording of “How we Play with Dolls” by Avital Gad-Cykman from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Avital Gad Cykman was born and raised in Israel, lives in Brazil, and writes in English. She is the winner of Margaret Atwood Studies Magazine Prize and first placed in The
Enjoy this audio recording of “Fall From the Sky” by Kate Ver Ploeg from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Kate Ver Ploeg has lived and biked throughout the United States and abroad. She now lives where she grew up and studies in the University of New Hampshire MFA writing program.
Enjoy this audio recording of “By His Grave Eight Years Later, Pete’s Hat” by Catherine Freeling from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal, available here. Catherine Freeling worked in theatre and as a public school teacher before finding poetry. She has been a finalist in the Rattle, Nimrod, and Bellevue Literary Review poetry contests, and a
Enjoy this audio recording of “Dali’s Clock” by Tricia Knoll from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tricia Knoll has degrees in literature from Stanford University (BA) and Yale University (MAT). Her poetry and haiku appear in numerous journals and several anthologies. Her most recent collection, How I Learned To Be
Enjoy this audio recording of “‘Twas Brillig at Marriage Counseling” by Mary Moore Easter from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Mary Moore Easter is a Cave Canem Fellow and poet/choreographer who mixes movement, text, and song, live and on video. Her chapbook is Walking from Origins. Professor of Dance Emerita at Carleton
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Second Son” by Elizabeth Berlin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Elizabeth Berlin is a teacher, writer, and avid hiker in Tucson, AZ. Recent publications include a nonfiction piece, Death and the Canyon, featured in the Canadian literary, Room. The same piece was a headliner on the magazine’s website and
This interview with Catherine Freeling was conducted in 2016 and includes her poem “The Day We Searched for the Road with Our Name” from Vol. 28:1 of CALYX Journal, available here. Catherine Freeling worked in theatre and as a public school teacher before finding poetry. She has been a finalist in the Rattle, Nimrod, and
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Shear Magic Salon” by Sharon Pretti from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sharon Pretti lives in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published in Nostos, Spillway, MARGIE, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse and other journals. She is an
Enjoy this audio recording of “Specified Tolerance” by Carla Laureen Bollinger from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Carla Laureen Bollinger is an author of cookbooks, Souper Skinny Soups and Vegetarians in the Fast Lane, travel, news editorials, and historical articles, but it is poetry that keeps her awake at night. She is a member of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Rise Up” by Nicole Rollender from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Nicole Rollender is the author of the poetry chapbooks Absence of Stars (July 2015, dancing girl press & studio), Little Deaths (November 2015, ELJ Publications), and Arrangement of Desire (Pudding House Publications). She’s the recipient
Enjoy this audio recording of “Proof” by Grace Mattern from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Grace Mattern’s poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Poet Lore, Cider Press Review, and Yankee. She has received fellowships from the New Hampshire
Enjoy this audio recording of “Period” by Catherine Lewis from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Catherine Lewis is the author of three books, most recently Thrice Told Tales (Simon & Schuster). Her shorter works have been published in magazines such as The Bellevue Literary Review, South Loop Review, and DASH Journal. She
Enjoy this audio recording of “How the Birds Returned” by Sharon Pretti from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sharon Pretti lives in San Francisco, California. Her work has been published in Nostos, Spillway, MARGIE, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse and other journals. She is an
Enjoy this audio recording of “Brick Heart” by DJ Gaskin from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. DJ Gaskin has published poetry in Gargoyle, SLAB, The Comstock Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, DeepWater Literary Review, Ars Medica and others. She also has work in two anthologies and was a finalist in Arlington, Virginia’s “Moving Words” contest. DJ’s
Enjoy this audio recording of “U. of Wisconsin 1995” by Malisa Garlieb from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Malisa Garlieb is a Waldorf teacher living and working in Shelburne, VT. Her poems have been published in Off the Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Lines + Stars, and Compass Rose, among others. Her first book, Recurring Down-slurred Trill, is forthcoming by Sunridge
Enjoy this audio recording of “Memento Mori” by Joan Ryan from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Joan Roberta Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars (3: A Taos Press, 2017). Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Leave Here Knowing by Elizabeth Oakes,” a review by Sherry Chandler from Vol. 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sherry Chandler is the author of The Woodcarver’s Wife and Weaving a New Eden. Her poems and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including Smartish Pace, The Cortland
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Rite of Friendship” by Ann Mallen from issue 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ann Mallen is a writer based in West Palm Beach and Pittsburgh. Her work often focuses on the struggle of the individual in relation to institutional, psycho-social, and cultural power. She graduated
Enjoy this audio recording of “When Summer Falls” by Taijhet Nyobi from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Taijhet Nyobi is an artist of African descent based in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has been published by Saul Williams, online magazines, and several literary journals. She is the 2014 grant recipient of
Enjoy this audio recording of “This is the Place Where Sound Was Born” by Bonny Barry Sanders from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Bonny Barry Sanders’ poems have been published in Blueline, Chattahoochee Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Connecticut Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ibbetson Street, Florida Review, The Louisiana Review, Puckerbrush Review, and The
Enjoy this audio recording of “This is a Question Mark Ready to Fly” by Sarah Jane Holsteen from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sarah Jane Holsteen holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her work has previously been published in South Loop Review and Drunken Boat.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Recalculating” by Jennifer Burd from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Jennifer Burd has had poetry published in numerous print and online journals. She is author of two full-length books of poetry, Days’ Late Blue (2017; Cherry Grove Collections) and Body and Echo (2010; PlainView Press), a chapbook with CD of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Persephone Talks to Her Girlfriends on Her Cell Phone” by Judith Arcana from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books. Praised by
Enjoy this audio recording of “Melon Mouth” by Taijhet Nyobi from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Taijhet Nyobi is an artist of African descent based in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has been published by Saul Williams, online magazines, and several literary journals. She is the 2014 grant recipient of the
Enjoy this audio recording of “Interdit” by Gillian Cummings from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University, 2018)
Enjoy this audio recording of “Amanat” by Lisa Dordal from issue 28.3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Lisa Dordal is the author of Mosaic of the Dark (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of an Academy of American Poets
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Name for the Year’s Longest Night” by Ruth Awad from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Ruth Awad is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press 2017) won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and
Enjoy this audio recording of “Whitetail” by Abby Minor from Vol. 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, gardens, paintings, quilts, and projects for reproductive justice. She’s received fellowships, residencies, and awards from Bitch Media, Split
Enjoy this audio recording of “Specimens Mounts 4 and 28” by Amy Wright from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Amy Wright is Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 journal, Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University, and author of Everything in the Universe, Cracker Sonnets, and five chapbooks including
Enjoy these audio recordings of “Blessing” and “How Joy is Never Erased” by Edwina Trentham from issue 29:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in
Enjoy these audio recordings of “Night Sheep” and “The Corn-Pecked Ground” by Carol Tiebout from issue 29:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Carol Tiebout is a poet and an educator who lives in Edmonds, WA. She has been an end-of-life bodyworker with hospice for ten years. Recently she has also developed collaborative
Enjoy this audio recording of “Harvest” by Mary Salisbury from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Mary Salisbury, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and finalist for the Orlando Poetry Prize, graduated with an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. Finishing Line Press published Salisbury’s chapbook, Come What May, in 2014.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Free App” by Sheila Sondik from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sheila Sondik, poet and printmaker, lives in Bellingham, Washington. Her poetry has appeared in Calyx, Raven Chronicles, The Floating Bridge Review, Frogpond, and many other journals and anthologies. Egress Studio Press published her chapbook,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Badmash Company” by Tania Malik from issue 29:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Tania Malik was born in New Delhi, and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas, and graduated from the University of
Enjoy this audio recording of “Sister Psalm” by Katherine Lo from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Katherine Lo is a writer and high school English teacher who lives in Southern California. Her work has previously been featured in Poet Lore, Rattle (Poets Respond), and Qu.
Enjoy this audio recording of “Mayakovsky Ghost” by Svetlana Beggs from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Svetlana Beggs is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy. Her poems will appear in forthcoming issues of Columbia Poetry Review and Pleiades, and her flash story was in a recent issue
Enjoy this audio recording of “Funeral” by Dorsey Craft from issue 30:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Dorsey Craft holds an MFA from McNeese State University, where she was awarded the Joy Scantlebury Prize for poetry. In addition toNinth Letter Web Edition, Dorsey’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, the
Enjoy this audio recording of “A Wheel of Brie” by Meredith Davies Hadaway from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. An award-winning poet and teacher of ecopoetry, Meredith Davies Hadaway is the author of three collections of poetry, At The Narrows, (2015) The River is a Reason (2011) and Fishing Secrets of the Dead (2005), all issued
Enjoy this audio recording of “alabo” by Sylvia Mercedes Beato from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Sylvia Beato-Davis is a writer and an educator. Her work revolves around the phenomenology of the body, the politics of linguistics, and post-colonial identity. Her current project attempts to dismantle narratives built from systems of
Enjoy this audio recording of “The Space Between Missing and Dead” by Susana H. Case from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here: https://www.calyxpress.org/product-category/journals/ Susana H. Case is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Erasure, Syria, new in 2018 from Recto y Verson Editions and Drugstore Blue, 2017 from Five Oaks Press,
Enjoy this audio recording of “Phone Sex Lullaby” by Charlotte Covey from issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Charlotte grew up in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. While still an undergrad, she co-founded Milk Journal. In Spring 2016, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and English with a Concentration in Creative
“The Vanishing” by Maris Handler was the recipient of the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and published in issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal, available here. Marisa Handler is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She is the author of the memoir Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for
Enjoy this audio recording of “Red Tulips” by Donna Emerson from issue 28:2 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Donna’s recent or forthcoming poetry publications include CALYX, the Paterson Literary Review, Spillway, the New Ohio Review, Sanskrit, descant, Quiddity, among many others. Her poetry paired with her photography publications include Lumina, the Healing Muse, Stone Canoe, and Passager. Her recent awards
Enjoy this audio recording of “Zombies on Skateboards” by Judith Arcana from issue 28:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here. Born and raised in the Great Lakes region, living now in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books. Praised by writers and readers, reviewers and community
Sandell Morse’s work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Ploughshares, the New England Review, Fourth Genre and Ascent. She has won second place in the 2015 Tiferet nonfiction contest and has been named a finalist in the Orison Books Anthology 2015, nonfiction contest. “Hiding” is a notable essay of 2013, listed in Best American Essays, 2013.
Rebecca Keller is an artist and writer. She has published in New Fairy Tales, Calyx, Public Historian, “Crossing Lines”(MainStreet Rag Press), Alimentum, Great Lakes Review and other journals. “Excavating History” is her book of art and essays. Her awards include two Fulbrights, grants from the NEA and the Illinois Arts Council, the Jakobson Award from the
This week we are excited to share Caitlin Scarano’s poem “To My Little Sister, Driving Drunk,” which was published in CALYX’s 27:3 issue. Caitlin Scarano is a poet in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD creative writing program. She was a finalist for the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology and the winner of the 2015 Indiana
This week we are pleased to have Ada Molinoff reading her short story “From White Space to Black Letter: Taking My Place in the Women’s Torah.” Ada Molinoff earned her MFA in nonfiction from Pacific University. Her poems have been published in literary journals, newspapers, and anthologies. This is her first published memoir piece, and
Today Voices of CALYX is proud to bring you Airica Parker’s poem “Identity,” which appeared in Volume 28:3 of CALYX, available here. Airica Parker’s work appears most recently in Camas, Driftwood Press, CALYX, The Fiddlehead, and Lalitamba. The Poetry Foundation selected her as a 2011 finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. An accomplished performer, instructor, and
CALYX is happy to showcase Abby Minor’s piece “Whitetail,” which was published in volume 28:2. Abby Minor has studied at Smith College, The Penland School of Crafts, and The Pennsylvania State University. Her book reviews and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, AGNI Online, Pleiades, and The Fourth River, among others. Also a visual artist,
Happy Friday, CALYX-ers! We are already on to week two of Voices of CALYX, and today I’m excited to present Kathleen Kelly’s poem “Free Range,” which was published in Volume 28:1. A first-generation editor and poet, Kathleen A. Kelly’s poems and essays have been published in North American Review, PoemMemoirStory, Rain Taxi, CALYX, and Nimrod. She completed Ph.D. coursework in literature
We’re proud to exhibit our first audio piece, written and recorded by Camellia Phillips. Camellia’s piece appears in Volume 27:3 of CALYX Journal. Camellia Phillips is a longtime grant writer with nonprofit organizations focused on social justice and civic engagement. In addition to CALYX Journal, her fiction has appeared in cream city review and her
